Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize Winner for her Writing on Pandemics and Andy Slavitt, Obama's Head of Medicare and Medicaid on the (Most Likely) Premature Introduction of a Coronavirus Vaccine

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🗓️ 13 September 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Garrett and Slavitt examine the erosion of trust in our public health institutions - The Federal Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control, and the Department of Health and Human Services under Donald Trump. And the tragic consequences now and in the future.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to the Elf Franken Podcast, add free on Amazon Music.
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0:09.0	In a four-part series, the Generation Y Podcast unravels the story of Khalif Browder, a young
0:14.3	boy falsely accused of stealing a backpack and held it Recker's island for three years
0:19.5	without trial.
0:21.0	This is a story about a young life caught in the middle of the justice system.
0:25.0	Introduction to Generation Y on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:32.0	Hey, everybody.
0:34.8	We have a great one today.
0:36.3	And this time, I really, really mean it.
0:38.9	And I'm serious.
0:39.9	I have Laurie Garrett, a Pulso Prize winning journalist who's been writing about infectious
0:46.4	diseases for decades and decades.
0:49.2	And she's just amazing.
0:50.9	And Andy Slavitt is on whether you know Andy.
0:54.2	He's the former head of Medicare and Medicaid.
0:58.0	And the whole podcast is basically on the vaccine, the vaccine which many of us fully expect
1:04.1	Trump to announce and release sometime in late October.
1:08.7	And we discuss every aspect of that.
1:12.0	And it's a pretty chilling discussion in a variety of ways.
1:17.2	And I'm serious, you know, for a change, this is one you are really, really going to
1:23.2	want to listen to.
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